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DINNER 
GIVEN BY THE 

KOCKY MOUNTAIN CLUB 

ON THE ANNIVERSARY 
OF 

ROOSEVELT'S BIRTHDAY 



MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27ih 1919 

THE WALDORF-ASTORIA 



Colonel Roosevelt, as Chairman of the Rocky Mountain Club Hoover Fund for 

Relief in Belgium addressed a letter in March 1917 to his fellow members and "The Men 

and Women of the West" of which the following are extracts:' 

"The action of the Rocky Mountain Club in devoting 
Its energies to the relief of the suffering children of Belgium 
rang true to the Western spirit, as all of us who have lived 
in the mountains and the plains have come to know that spirit, 
I have gladly joined in the movement to do what I can for a 
gallant little nation which has been cruelly trampled under 
foot, for no fault of its own, and now lies prostrate, threatened 
with the loss of its spiritual as well as its physical being. It 
is the literal truth that rarely since the days of Herod has child- 
life been so menaced as to-day in Belgium. 

"I shall not deal with the material side of this question, or 
tell how 1,250,000 children are compelled to go hungry and 
are threatened with disease and slow starvation. All this is being 
told in the West in speeches, in letters, in literature, in car- 
toons, and in personal pleas. Suffice it to say that Belgiuin 
to-day stands in mortal danger of losing both its bodily life 
and its soul." 

"But what of us? What of our soul if like Levite and the 
Priest we pass by on our business with averted eyes? The 

nation that turns a deaf ear to the sufferings of ten milhon 
people, including a million and a quarter children, is com- 
mitting moral suicide. Diseases born of want and hunger are 
spreading with dreadful rapidity among these 1,250.000 chil- 
dren of Belgium, Shall we look idly on while these children 
die? Other nations do not sit idle. War-torn England and 
France have given largely. Brave little Holland has cared 
withm her own bordersfor hundreds of thousands of refugees. 
The rest of the world has spent $250,000,000 for Belgium. 
We have contributed only nine milHons. Is this enough to 
make us think that we have done our duty? We say with 
unctuous self-satisfaction that we have been 'kept out of war.' 
We chuckle because in 1916 we sold five billions' worth of 
products to Europe. Are our souls rotted ? Can we see only the 
dollar sign in the sky? What of our souls is we continue deaf 
to the crying need of a gallant nation, threatened with ex- 
tinction through the loss of its first born? Can any man of 
high and generous nature, having been told the facts, con- 
tinue to be indifferent. 



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HERBERT HOOVER 

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HON. ALTON B. PARKER 

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HIS EXCELLENCY THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR 

JOHN HAYS HAMMOND 

HON. JOB E. HEDGES 

COLONEL HENRY D. LINDSLEY 

DR. WILLIAM T MANNING 

HON. ELIHU ROOT 

MAJOR-GENERAL DANIEL C. SHANKS 

WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT 

"Consider the qualities which were his beyond dispute: 
Dauntless courage; fortitude; indomitable resolution. 

Decision of character; an ingrained habit of mind, swiftly grasping all available data, and 
converging to immediate action. 

A fixed philosophy of life which sets a high standard of service to the point of sacrifice 
and of scorn to spare one's self. 

Public spirit; love of Country; intense loyalty to ideals. 

Sincerity; hatred of shams; love of: justice; honor. 

Family affection; capacity for friendship; purity of character; cheerfulness; hopefulness 
humor; magnanimity. 

Breadth of vision; intuitive sympathy with the feelings and interests of all men; an inevitable im- 
pulse to help the under-dog. 

Essential constructiveness; never seeking to tear down except as part of a definite prac- 
tical scheme of betterment. 

He was not infallible. The swift decisions of a true executive make some mistakes in- 
evitable; but we can affirm with confidence in the agreement of all who knew him best that he 
never decided upon a course of conduct or a public action which he did not believe to be for 
the best interests of his Country, and in which that consideration did not stand first in his mind." 

ELIHU ROOT 



"The impress that Theodore Roosevelt's personality has made upon the world does no. 
need emphasis. Whatever his fame as a statesman, it can never outrun his fame as a mant 
However widely men may differ from him in matters of national policy, this thing men in their 
hearts would all wish, that their sons might have within them the spint, the will, the strength, the 
manliness, the Americanism of Roosevelt. He was made of that rugged and heroic stuff with 
which legend delights to play. The Idylls and the Sagas and the Iliads have been woven about 
men of his mold. We may surely expect to see developed a Roosevelt legend, a body of tales 
that will exalt the physical power and endurance of the man and the boldness of his spirit, his 
robust capacity for blunt speech and his hearty comradeship, his live interest in all tilings living- 
tfiese will make our boys for tfie long future proud that they are of his race and his country. 
And no surer fame than this can come to any man- to live in the hearts of the boys of his land 
as one whose doings and sayings they would wish to make their own. " 

FRANKLIN K. LANE 



AMERICA 



My country, 'tis of thee, 
Sweet land of liberty. 

Of thee I sing, 
Land where my fathers died. 
Land of the Pilgrim's pride, 
From every mountain side 

Let freedom ring. 



My native country, thee. 
Land of the noble free — 

Thy name 1 love; 
! love thy rocks and rills 
Thy woods and templed hills; 
My heart with rapture thrills; 

Like that above. 



Our fathers' God — to Thee, 
Author of liberty. 

To thee we sing; 
Long may our land be bright 
With freedom's holy light. 
Protect us by Thy might. 

Great God, our King. 



KOOSEVELT'S FAVORITE HYMN 



How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, 
Is laid for your faith in His excellent word ! 
What more can He say than to you He hath said 
To you, who for refuge to Jesus have fled. 

2 

Fear not; I am Vkith thee; O be not dismayed! 
For I am thy God, I will still give thee aid: 
I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to 
stand 
Up-held by my gracious, omnipotent hand 

3 

When througth the deep waters I call thee to go. 
The rivers of sorrow shall overflow, 
For 1 will be with thee, thy trials to bless. 
And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress. 



When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie. 
My grace, all-suflicient, shall be thy supply. 
The flame shall not hurt thee— I only design 
Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine. 

5 

E'en down to old age, all my people shall prove 
My sovereign, eternal, unchangeable love; 
And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn. 
Like lambs they shall still in my bosom be borne, 

6 

'The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose 

1 will not, I \m\\ not, desert to his foes; 

That soul, though all hell should endeavor to 

shake 

I'll never, no never, no never, forsake." 



OFFICERS 

John Hays Hammond, President 
William Boyce Thompson, Vice-President 
William J. Palmer, Treasurer 
Frank W. Holmes, Assistant Treasurer 
Herbert Wall, Secretary 



DINNER COMMITTEE 

Coleman du Pont, Chairman 



Rodolphe L. Agassiz 

Sherwood Aldrich 

Henry Altenbrand 

Ki.rnal R. Babbitt 

Bernard M. Bariicli 

Thomas Burke 

Benjamin F. Bush 

Hon. Thomas E. Campbell 

Thomas L. Chadbourne, Jr. 

John M. Chapman 

Edward H. Clark 

William A. Clark, Jr. 

Charles K. Cole 

William E. Corey 

William H. Criuker 

J. S. Cullinan 

James S. Douglas 

Walter Douglas 

George O. Eatim 

Stanly A. Easion 

Herbert Fleishhacker 

James Gay Icy 

S. R. Guggenheim 

John Hays HainmotuI 

Cieorge Harvey 

Charles Hayden 

Alexander J. Hemphill 



Louis W. Hill 

Frank H. Hitchcock 

Thomas M. Hodgens 

Edwin O. Holter 

Daniel C. Jackling 

Hon. A. A. Jones 

C. F. Kelley 

Hon. O. A. Larrazolo 

Albert R. Ledoux 

Adolph Lewisohn 

Price McKinney 

James MacNaughlon 

Charles M. MacNeill 

John Markle 

F,. P. Matliewson 

Charles W. Merrill 

Charles E. Mills 

Ogden Mills 

S. '/. Mitchell 

John C. Montgomery 

Seeley W. Mudd 

William J. Palmer 

Spencer Penrose 

George W. Perkins 

O. B. Perry 

L. Bradford Prince 

Hon. Lawrence C. Phipps 



William C. Potter 
Patrick J. yuealy 
Ralph S. Rainsford 
Charles F. Rand 
William H. Remick 
L. D. Ricketts 
Charles H. Sabin 
Mortimer L. Schiff 
Albert J. Seligman 
Finley J. Shepard 
Hon. O. H. Shoup 
F.vigene P. Shove 
H. F. Sinclair 
E. Gybbon Spilsburv 
CJalen L. Stone 
Benjamin B. Thayer 
William Boyce Thompson 
Edward R. Tinker 
J. K. Toole 
William Wallace, Jr. 
Hon. Francis F.. Warren 
T. H. Walkins 
Bulkeley Wells 
Charles W. Whitley 
Harry Payne Whitney 
Henry E. Wood 
Pope Yeatman 



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